When Terminator Godzilla sheds its fake skin to reveal the mechanical nightmare underneath to the world with the camera cutting to all of the different parts and armaments it has, and that upbeat but imposing music always makes me smile. It’s one of the coolest villain reveals in the Godzilla movies and movies in general.

Let’s go my favorite Showa era film

25:55 Fun Fact: Dr. Gori was also the major inspiration for Craig McCracken to create and design Mojo Jojo for The PowerPuff Girls.

This MechaG is always my favorite. I love some elements of the other design but this movie was my favorite of the era. MechaG was so sinister and brutal and had a band following him around playing an evil theme. That first fight in the movie had so much tension and wasn't even the main event. Appreciate your videos!

So, with Kuronuma's line about King Shisa rousing/awakening other monsters, it's more a reference to the legend as it states that two monsters would join together to save the world. At that point in the story, none of the characters were expecting Godzilla to be the one to join forces with King Shisa to stop Mechagodzilla.

What I love about Miyarabi's Prayer is that Bellabella's intensity and the visual of Mechagodzilla stomping up make this a weirdly tense scene. It's like trying to start a car to escape a slasher villain, but instead of the engine stalling, it's trying to sing an ancient song/ password. Sure she's singing "Ceasar" a dozen times, but it's like what she wants to say in her heart is, "START YOU HUNK OF JUNK!" As for the the ape aliens' transformations being 2spooky4u, I know exactly what you mean. It STILL gets me. Thanks again for covering one of my favorite Godzilla movies. It's enriching to be able to appreciate all the work and sacrifice that goes into these works of art!

Angy getting his jaw broke messed me up as a kid

Sorry babe cant go out tonight, Bill dropped another history of Godzilla episode.

This was also the first Godzilla film I can remember seeing as a child. It seems to be a lot of people's first. This one holds a special place in my heart and I'm so excited for this review.

Great timing bill! This was actually my first Godzilla film I'd ever watched and to this day I still love it and the style of it! I wished the whole showa era was like this style but that only happened later on. Anyways thank you for this history video! 💯

I’ve been waiting for this one for so long. This was the first one I ever saw. I found the VHS tape at a garage sale and fell in love with Godzilla movies. Ironically I ended up stationed in Okinawa!

The first Godzilla film I ever saw back in the mid 90s, and still my favorite all these years later. Thank you so much for the trouble you go through to put these wonderful and insightful retrospectives together!

It’s Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 50th anniversary today.

My second favorite Showa Era Godzilla film -- Godzilla vs. Hedorah being the first -- when I was a kid! I cannot wait to watch it! Keep up the good work! Cheers.

Always good to see Bill bring us back to the big G-man. Cheers Bill!

I had a dual VHS box of this and Godzilla vs Gigan as a kid. I watched them both so many times that the audio track is absolutely toasted for both movies. Years later, I found a dvd of Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla at a used video shop. When I put that thing in the player and heard that swing band Mecha G intro it brought me all the warm fuzzies. Thank you for covering one of my favorite movies of all time.

Patiently waiting on the History of Terror of Mechagodzilla

King Cesar is also my favorite Toho monster after the King himself. I have loved this series of videos and hope you will continue them after Terror. They are very informative and well-researched. Best Kaiju fan on KZfaq.

As a working musician for the past decade and lover of music literature I NEED to tell you how much I appreciate how you verbalized your feelings on the scores. The more I learn about music I'm convinced that "music that makes you want to think" and "music that makes you want to dance" are the only two genres of music lol great vid

This was the second ever Godzilla movie I watched after Godzilla Vs. Gigan. To this day I still love that the music for the battle scenes and Mecha-Godzilla's theme was jazzy, it somehow works and hits so hard.

One of my first Godzilla movies and probably my 3rd favorite Showa movie. The miniatures are fantastic, the SFX are great and far surpass the previous 4 movies, the monster design is unique, and the music is absolutely BANGIN'.

Thanks for bringing up Gojiban. That series is pretty wild, but it gets kudos for being the first film showcase of the phantom monster Bagan since the initial showcase in Super Godzilla.

This may be my favorite one of them all & I have patiently waited for you to cover it. Thank you for all your hard work on these videos.

YES!!! AT LAST!!! This was my introduction to Godzilla. It’s still my favorite. I’m so happy it’s being covered! Although Miyarabi’s Prayer seemed to last forever, I still rewinded that part a few times. The version sung on the Best of Godzilla 1954-1975 was what I had access to for awhile and it too felt like it lasted forever. I only recently found the actual soundtrack of the movie. I was really excited.

50th anniversary of Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla so cool I can’t believe it

Finally! Probably the most fun and entertaining Goji flick for me. Thanks for bringing this videos Bill.😀

Love the series man keep up the great work so fascinating and informative 💯🙏🏻

I think the reason stills of Ghidorah are shown during Nami's prophecy are to show that this film's monster is as terrifying/powerful if not more so than the Emperor of the Cosmos.

I can’t believe I missed this on the day that you posted it! I am so happy to see you’re continuing the series! Keep going! These deep dives are awesome!

As much as I loved Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla and Spectreman, I never in a billion years guessed there was a connection between the two. This definitely ranks as one of my favorite Godzilla movies, and I love your behind the scenes work. Great job and keep up the great work.

One more video, and we will come full circle. It's gonna be an end of an era, but I just know I'll rewatch these videos again in a few years.

Hi there Big Action Bill. Fantastic video on what I think is the best of the 1970 Godzilla films, next to Terror of Mechagodzilla. I've been doing my own fanfic of this film and made some changes to the story. I feel like there were too many protagonists to follow even though they are likable and human story is decent. I also improved King Shisa's origins, add more detail on how he was created. I also had Anguirus fight along side Godzilla and King Shisa in the final battle against Mechagodzilla. I also cut out the part where the aliens needed an earth scientist to help them fix Mechagodzilla. When we first see Mechagodzilla, he does not fly out of the ground in a rock, but surfaces from a volcano. He is also no disguised as the real Godzilla. That made no sense to me. Instead of Godzilla using magnetic powers, King Shisa is the one with a hidden power. He has the power to heal Godzilla and bring Anguirus back to life after Mechagodzilla kills him. In my story, the Planet 3 aliens are not only conquering the planet for themselves but they are also planet brokers, planning of selling parts of the Earth to other alone races. This was something in the early drafts of the film and I thought that was a neat idea. In the end, King Shisa is the one to rip Mechagodzilla's head by karate kicking it into the sea, while Godzilla blows up the rets of its body.

FELLOW CAESAR FANN??????!!!!!

One of best 70s godzilla movies, with the sequel, and godzilla vs smog Monster

Y E S- the best showa film in my opinion, the music and the fights are just- top teir-

Always good to see more of brill Bill. Easily the best monster video guy on youtube and that's despite the others not even being bad

Always the best Godzilla fact man online! And always a great job man!!!

Perfect timing I just made my friends watch this movie. Good shit as always bill I can't wait for terror of mechagodzilla as it's my favorite showa film and I feel it gets more flak than it deserves.

One of my favorite Godzilla movies and my favorite version of MechaGodzilla. The 1974 version is and always will be my all time favorite, mostly just the way they made it look was by far the coolest and the music they used for his themes.

One of the main BEST from Godzilla Showa series.

Yay! A new one to watch! Thank you, Bill!

This movie along with Terror of Mechagodzilla hold a special place in my heart. Terror was one of the first Godzilla movies I ever saw and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla is the mechagodzilla movie that I rewatched the most as a kid. Both movies definitely make my top 10 favorite Godzilla movies list.

I've been waiting for this movie review. It is my one of my favorite Godzilla movies!

Wow....your channel is one of the only ones to mention the cosmic monster.

Best channel! Greetings from Poland!

Wake up babe, a new Big Action Bill "History of Godzilla" video dropped

I would argue this might be Jun Fukuda’s best Godzilla film. Certainly my favorite. I know he didn’t hold his time in the Godzilla franchise in much high regard, but the film looks and feels like he had a lot of fun with it. I always loved the English dub in this film too, especially for the Simian leader. The voice actor they chose to dub him really did a great job retaining the arrogant attitude of the character

When I was a kid and used to watch this movie all the time, I always thought that the mountain that king Ceasars is sleeping in during the awakening song looks just like godzillas head, with King Ceasar being placed as his eyeball. I always used to think that was deliberate, signifying that when he was summoned, it would be to fight alongside godzilla. Would love to know if that was intentional or just a coincidence.

Saw this in cinemas as Godzilla vs The Bionic Monster and loved it. One of the best Showa era films!

These are very well done. Thank you. One of my favorites.

The Theme of Mechagodzilla is such a banger

Love these videos it brings me so much happiness to have someone who covers my favorite fictional character even before I could walk I was watching Godzilla 😂

I've never understood G's entrance in this one. Was he just napping in a warehouse?

I binged your entire Godzilla content a few weeks back and my God was it fun. Probably some of the BEST Godzilla content online. Got my dinner ready, can't wait to watch this.

I have been waiting like patience on a monument for this video! AWESOME!!!!!

We always thought her song was about ‘pizza’ and not… ‘shisa’ We loved that in our minds king caesar was awoken by pizza…

Oh man! I've been hella sick all weekend. I woke up to this, made my day!

Great review. I'm loving this series! Also wanted to concur that Shin Ultraman was ridiculous, and I loved every second of it!!

THIS IS MY 3-5 TIME WATCHING THIS EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Never gets old

i took my buddy through the franchise recently, and he did not realize that disguised mechaG wasn't actually godzilla until the full reveal

Great work on these as always Bill! As a child I always thought this film came before Gigan and that was the reason Nami had the vision of Ghidorah lol. One of the reasons I interpreted it that way was because the vhs covers were similar and the tapes were both released by starmaker. The ape aliens freaked me out as a child too, I hated them but thought it was hilarious when the assassin one screamed when he was shot off the cruise ship lol

Well done as always. I do prefer Terror more, (I just grew up with it first and watched my tape so much as a kid, that it fell apart in the VHS player. That was a sad day indeed.) But there are a ton of fans of this film and I can see why. There is a ton of characters; King Ceasar is a rare cool mammal kaiju; and it returns Godzilla to a story that is more than him just showing up and saving the day. Great video as always and I really look forward to seeing Terror. After you get done with the Godzilla series, do you plan to try and do the Gamera showa? or other giant monster films that have a lot of published behind the scenes stuff?

Always look forward to these videos. Thanks again.

The SpongeBob thing at the 9min mark really got me. Thanks for all the work with these videos! Gonna buy that Book next.

I would love it if the new Toho Godzilla movies pick up in the Showa series.

Not sure what I respect more my man… The work ethic or the quality of the work… Either way, great video sir.👍

Loved this one! When I opened the Criterion collection, I fell in love with this films artwork. Easily my favorite of the bunch. Showa MG has always been my favorite. I loved it when he was just evil and pointy and violent. MG2 and Kiryu didn't have though, though Kiryu was really well developed. Looking forward to your review of ToMG! It's been in my Top 3 Showa films for a long time despite all its flaws!

Always thought King Caesar when I was a kid look liked a big puppy dog.

Saw this movie for the first time on a screen at the Kaiju Go! festival in Dallas last week. Such a great feeling to watch one of my childhood favorites at a real movie theater. Also, they were playing episodes of Spectreman before the main films come on. The dubbed version’s theme song has been stuck in my head for days now!

Yes, been waiting for this, my favourite Godzilla film of all time.

MY FAVORITE ONE! THANKS FOR COVERING IT!

I would love to go to 🇯🇵 and visit ToHo studios. Because,Godzilla is my favorite movie monster.

As someone who watches wrestling and has seen a few Shoko Nakajima matches, that note about her playing the role of King Caesar's sister is a wonderful little note, considering her whole character is that she's the "1.47m Big Kaiju". Just wanted to nerd out in the comments.

The reason why Nami sang the whole song in the movie was because the actress, Bellbella Lin, was actualy a singer. During 70s, Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng caused a phenomenon in Japan, so TOHO signed Bellbella Lin, wishing she would be as famous as Teresa.

Every once in a while I will hum the music when MechaG reveals itself to Godzilla. This my favorite G movie of all time. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

I just discovered this channel like a month or two ago and have been so excited for this upload!!!!!!! One of my favourite films of all time!!!!!! Keep up the awesome work dude!!!

YES!! Ive been waiting for this one for so long

Comparing Showa Godzilla to Vegeta is strangely apt, as both characters start out as destructive villains who become increasingly anti-heroic before switching sides completely. But who whould Godzilla's "Goku be? Mothra?

It’s cool how much they spent on this movie. Shooting on location, having a bunch of pyrotechnics, multiple Kaiju, multiple actors and actresses… It’s pretty awesome honestly.

Ahh yes not only my favorite showa film besides the original 54 film, not only one of my favorite godzilla films but just also one of my favorite films of all time

one more and we'll be all caught up with Bill's Godzilla retrospectives pre-Legendary Monsterverse & Shin Godzilla.

Mechagodzilla’s entrance in this movie is amazing and hands down the most iconic moment in Godzilla history

Absolute BANGER of a sound track. Have this on VHS and still throw it in the machine every other month.

My man I have been waiting for this review for along time I'm beyond happy right now

I absolutely love this movie! It's Fukuda's best in the series. Like you, I get a kick out of "The Maiden's Prayer" segment, often getting out of my seat and dancing to the song.

Hello Big Action Bill! Thank You for uploading Your video about my favorite Godzilla movie. Like usual, here are now the informations about the movie in Germany. The German Title is "King Kong gegen Godzilla", the Englisch translation is "King Kong versus Godzilla". While in the last movie "Godzilla versus Megalon", in the German version Jet Jaguar got namend King Kong, in this movie Mechagodzilla is called King Kong. Once again, there is no reference to the original King Kong at all. One more time htey used the name King Kong, because it is well known as a monster name in Germany. The premiere in the German movie cinemas was on December, the 20th in 1974. Also on interesdting thing in Your video. At 15:52 in the car driving scene, the actor is constantly move the steering wheel to the right and the left. If he actually drove like that, the car would quickly spin out of control.

Another great video. One of my favorite Godzilla movies as a kid too. Godzilla as Magneto blew my mind

great video once again, loved the anecdotes

I heard that the producers originally wanted to have Baragon in this film to battle Fake Godzilla/Mechagodzilla instead of Anguirus. That would explain Anguirus' burrowing ability here.

It’s here! Been waiting for this one since I found your channel and binged every episode, thus far.

Duuuude I just found out you're the Mike Franseca guy! Heard your skit on an OandA clip and couldnt stop laughi g! 😂 And you like Godzilla too, id sub 100 times if I could

I always loved this movie, as a kid mechagodzilla was like the terminator, even having fire destroy the skin of the robot and reveal the true terror beneath and all acompanied to that sweet jazzy swing, somehow i dont think that song would work in terminator when the endoskeleton steps out of the fire lol. And its cool that at 30:16 you can see the hinge in godzillas mouth.

Bull I’ve been waiting for this for so long I’m so happy you posted today. Got to see M3GAN and your amazing content all in one day!

Love it. Who doesn't love Mecha-G. No stock footage. Thought Reiko was super cute as a kid. Huge improvement in the series. Always wonder why Toho took so long to create Mecha-G. Been calling certain dogs King Ceasar for 45 years.

Oh yes, this is my jam! My earliest memories of Godzilla were with this movie, and '85 but I try not to think about that. For decades all I had for this movie was just before all the explosions that reveal fake Godzilla. I still remember the video would come in with a guy running up and down a dark street like he was looking for someone, then cut to another guy watching him while he smokes, then cut to the crazy explosions. Because this was my main movie for Godzilla it was why I always viewed him as a hero monster and not the atomic metaphor he was supposed to be. And help me out here, until the internet came along, I always thought Ceasar's name was "King Seasog" because of how I heard everyone pronouncing it. But this really did have some great monster fights. As for the "chicken wing" move Godzilla does when walking, as a little kid I thought it made him look tough, probably what they had in mind when he did it.

Had just watched this one last week, great to have a new documentary while the film is also still fresh in my mind. Thank you for what you di!

I have been waiting for this one. Surprisingly bloody and violent, but a good story with the human characters and villains. These were great fights and I loved the concept of different groups trying to take care of Mecha Godzilla. King Ceaser awakening was an epic moment. Godzilla being beaten bloody and dropped in the ocean was shocking. This movie would have been a great ending for the Shows era, but the sequel was good.

Aw yeah, Bill. I was waiting for this.

Godzilla 1985 will always be my favorite. Both versions. 2nd being the 1954 original and the American version. The new Godzilla and Kong movies are outstanding in my opinion. Also love Shin Godzilla.

God I really needed this video right now, thank you bill.